On Invisible Language in Modern English
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Approach to Ellipsis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350064515
Subjects: Grammar, comparative and general; Linguistics
Description: "This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that trigger it. It presents the results of a corpus-based study which takes into account grammatical, semantic/discursive, usage-related and processing variables. Evelyn Gandón-Chapela builds upon the few empirical works on ellipsis in Present-day English to offer the first comparative analysis of ellipsis and its development throughout the recent history of the English language. Moreover, the book also provides a complex query algorithm which automatically detects and retrieves cases of ellipsis, leading to successful recall ratios, applicable to a wide range of parsed corpora."--